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KARACHI In the city where Daniel Pearl was murdered in February, a red Toyota Corolla with a bomb on the backseat pulled up beside a Pakistani bus on May 8 and exploded, killing 14. Authorities suspect the attack was the work of al-Qaeda. It was the third time in four months that foreigners in Pakistan had been murdered...
...declining sales. Four years later, it was revived by tycoon Mohamed al Fayed, owner of London's famed Harrods department store. But Fayed said he could no longer afford to keep the publication afloat, though its archives and cartoons will be maintained online. BORN. To MARIANNE PEARL,the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a baby boy; in Paris. Pearl was killed more than four months ago by Islamic militants while reporting in Pakistan. ARRESTED. LEE HONG SEOK, 54, Korea's assistant minister of culture and tourism, on bribery charges; in Seoul. Lee is accused of having...
FOUND. A dismembered body believed by Pakistani police to be the remains of DANIEL PEARL, 38, the Wall Street Journal reporter killed, allegedly by Islamic militants, last winter; on the outskirts of Karachi. Investigators are conducting DNA tests to confirm the identity...
...DIED. WALTER LORD, 84, narrative historian and author of popular historical accounts such as A Night to Remember (on the Titanic) and Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor); in New York City. For A Night to Remember-which was made into a 1958 Hollywood movie-Lord tracked down 60 survivors of the disaster. He also served as a consultant for the 1998 blockbuster film Titanic. DIED. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, 60, paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure...
...about the president of the United States - that he would have prevented the death of thousands if he'd been able. And yet the New York Post headline - and this is not a liberal, Bush-bashing paper we're talking about here - implies something out of "Oliver Stone's Pearl Harbor." To be fair, BUSH KNEW was only saying aloud what other news accounts merely muttered...